A Ford Transit full-size commercial van is prepared for durability tests at the Michigan Proving Grounds in Romeo, Mich.

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Alisa Priddle
| Detroit Free Press

That was Ford's thinking years ago when development of ever-tougher trucks demanded testing the prototypes on ever-tougher test tracks.

More rigorous durability testing is good for eventual buyers but a bone-rattling assignment for test drivers who must put in the equivalent of thousands of miles over curbs, potholes and other hellish terrain. ...